When alcohol or gas burns, the flame will be very quiet.

This crackling sound is only made when wood is burning.

"Hello? How can I help you?"

After more than ten seconds, Chen Ge saw that no one spoke on the other end of the phone, so he asked tentatively.

The wine bottle fell, and it seemed like something spilled out, causing the fire to burn even more fiercely.

"Hello! Is anyone there?"

If the call is answered, it means there must be someone standing near the phone.

"Is it a fire?! Are you okay? Please tell me your location immediately!"

Chen Ge became nervous and shouted loudly.

The fire was still burning, and another voice was mixed in with the rising flames.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?"

He has a nice voice, but his throat is hoarse.

"Okay, I don't have anything to do right now." Chen Ge was worried that the other party would not speak. As long as they could communicate, he would be able to get useful information: "So what do you want to talk about?"

After a long while, he replied: "I don't know."

He spoke slowly, as if he was lost in thought.

Chen Ge could tell that the other party's tone was not right, so he did not dare to speak casually, for fear of irritating the other party.

"Shall we think of something happy?"

"There are many happy things, and everyone is happy. I know I should act happy, but I just can't be happy."

"Relax, how about we think of some good memories?"

“Memories?” The man was silent again, but the sound of the burning fire on the other end of the phone became clearer and clearer: “When I was a child, my parents often quarreled over life.”

After hearing the first sentence, Chen Ge felt something was wrong. This was not a good memory. He wanted to interrupt the other party, but the man on the other end of the phone had no intention of stopping.

"My mother was very strict with me and wanted me to be successful. I was always a very good child, a little shy and not talkative."

"I was a pretty good student in elementary school, but I only received a certificate for being a "three-good student" once in six years."

"When I was in junior high school, my English was very poor and my grades were average. My mother found an English teacher to tutor me in my third year. After school, I had to go to class, and by 9:30 in the evening, it was already 10 o'clock when I got home."

"That teacher taught very well. When I was admitted, I scored over 90 points in English. Although I didn't do well in math and Chinese, which I was good at, my overall score was still in the top ten in the class. I think I scored over 560 points."

"With this score, you can apply to all high schools except the No. 1 High School in the city."

"I actually don't understand why we should put a label on the child at that time."

"No. 1 High School in the city is the best high school. I missed the score by more than 20 points. If I want to go to No. 1 High School, I have to pay an extra 18,000 yuan in tuition."

"My parents' combined monthly salary is more than 4,000 yuan. In order to give me a better starting point, they paid the extra money to let me go to No. 1 High School."

“Am I grateful?”

"I don't know myself. Maybe I don't want to let down my hard work in the first three months. I'm worried about being exposed. I'm worried that others will know that you didn't get in through your own strength, but got in through the backdoor."

"In fact, other people don't care too much about these things. Maybe I am a very proud person in my bones, or maybe I don't want to be different from them."

"I got an average score in the entrance exam, which made me happy and I started to work harder."

"But during the midterm exam, my grades slipped to the lower middle level."

"I can't find the reason. It may be that there is something wrong with my study method, or it may be that I haven't worked hard enough."

"Let's fight."

"When the final exam results came out, our ranking dropped again and we were at the bottom of the pack."

"A person with excellent grades becomes a poor student. His identity has changed, but he still has to go through a psychological adaptation process."

"When you start to adapt psychologically, you go from being a student to a poor student."

"I am a bit strange. I am a poor student with a strong sense of self-esteem and I am also very proud."

"When I was choosing between arts and science, I met someone I liked. It's hard to describe the feeling, but I was very happy just seeing him."

"She is a very good student and works very hard. She always goes to the classroom very early in the morning."

"The key to our classroom is in the hands of the monitor. I get up very early every morning just to jump out of the window and help her open the door before she comes to open it."

"There were many similar things. When she went to the cafeteria for lunch at noon, I would stand in the corridor with my English book and memorize words, hoping to wait for her to come back and watch her walk from the cafeteria into the teaching building."

"I'm ashamed to say that I only scored over 30 points in the final English test after memorizing words for a whole semester."

"My grades got worse and worse, and I was consistently in the bottom ten. When I was in my third year of high school, when everyone was fighting a desperate battle, my hobbies were reading and writing."

"Read all kinds of extracurricular books, online articles, magazines, all science fiction and suspense from home and abroad."

"After reading a lot, a world will appear in my mind, a world of my own imagination. It was also at that time that I first established an author account online and tried to write something."

"With more than a hundred days left before the college entrance exam, several of my comrades who worked at the night market gradually settled down, but I still stepped on the surveillance camera to sneak out and write."

"During the 100-day swearing-in ceremony, the school leaders were on the stage giving a general mobilization speech. I looked at them and thought about my favorite books and authors. I wanted to be like them, to create a world that many people would like."

"The college entrance examination is over. There are two ways to interpret these four words."

"One is that the exam is over, and two is that I am done."

"I just passed the junior college entrance exam. Compared to those who were not satisfied with their college entrance exams and were planning to repeat their studies, I decided to seize this last chance to express my feelings."

"It's very real. I still didn't say anything. I saw the girl I liked with the class monitor."

"I went to get a shaved head. As the only college student in a key class of a key high school in the city, I must have my own demeanor and be calm and composed."

"I don't plan to contact them anymore. Perhaps it's because the stronger the self-esteem, the less they like others' sympathy."

“Even if you are a poor student, you must be a poor student with dreams.”

"After I entered university, writing became my life. I planned to create a mythological work that combines all elements from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign."

"I've read a lot of books and know a little bit about everything, and I submit what I write to the website."

“The first contract was signed at that time. More than 300,000 words were put on the shelves, but no one read them.”

“Then I submitted some random stuff, but they didn’t want it.”

"In the second semester of my junior year, some of my classmates were busy preparing for their undergraduate studies or taking the teacher qualification exam, while I went to an internship in a place farthest from home."

"The factory where my father worked closed down, and the boss was sentenced to ten years in prison for illegal fundraising. My mother is the only one in the family who earns less than 2,000 yuan."

"Go out for an internship. It's the farthest place from home. The salary is the highest, and you can see the sea."

"Thirty-three people from our school went to this company for internship. Because they were working on the front line, the temperature in the workshop was over 40 degrees, and they were often exposed to copper mud and kerosene. After a month, only sixteen people stayed."

"I was later transferred to another department due to my professional background. The work was not easy every day, but it was within an acceptable range."

"He gradually became more and more proficient, and the leader also felt that although this child was not talkative, he was down-to-earth and serious, so he was promoted to a full-time employee ahead of schedule."

"After getting used to working eight hours a day and taking one day off a week, I began to reflect on myself: Do I have to work here forever? How can a worker in the new era not have ideals?"

"I started writing again, working eight hours a day, and then going home at night to write 4,000 words, 4,000 words that no one reads, no one likes, and no one even scolds me."

“If I don’t write, nothing will change. Although writing is tiring, at least I like writing.”

"Maybe God really favors those who work hard. There are only a few readers of my article, but the girl I liked in high school suddenly appeared in

"When I was a sophomore, I heard from another male classmate that she had broken up with the class monitor, but I was obsessed with writing my own mythology, science fiction and suspense at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

"We started to keep in touch frequently afterwards. During my annual leave, I went to see her and wandered around her school."

"There's only one word difference between junior college and university, so I don't think the difference is that big. But later she studied for a master's and a doctorate, so the difference of four words is quite big."

"I forgot the day I confessed my feelings, and I don't know what I said at the time, but it just wasn't appropriate."

"It's not too uncomfortable."

"Later, I continued to work and write, and finally the book was put on the shelves."

"No one reads it. My monthly payment is over 600 yuan, of which 600 yuan is an attendance bonus."

"Later, when I searched for my own books, I found many pirated websites. I was so angry that I reported and complained. I tried every possible way and finally added the QQ number left by the person on the pirated website."

"That place also has readers' comments, which is more lively than my genuine book review area. After I added that person, I told him to remove my book from the shelves immediately, otherwise I will use various means to protect my rights."

"He ignored me."

"I looked for other pirated websites and found that many of them had the same person's QQ number, so I tried to reason with him."

"I still won't reply. This is the first time that I, a poor student with such a proud heart, ask for help."

"As the legitimate author, I want to tell the person who opened the pirated website that I will not ask you to take it down. Please do not update at the same time as me. Can you wait for three days after I publish the legitimate chapters before you update? If you don't agree to three days, one day is fine? I beg you."

"I even posted in the comments section of that pirated version, saying that I only make 600 yuan a month. If you like it, please support the official version."

"Some people responded to me, saying that I was playing the victim, that I was a scoundrel, that what I wrote poisoned them, and that no great god cared about these things, because there were so many flops."

"The person who opened the pirated webpage didn't reply to me, and I didn't reply to those pirated readers either. After exiting the browser, I continued to write today's 4,000 words."

"I write 4,000 words a day for a month before I get a full attendance bonus of 600 yuan. This 600 yuan is the full reward for all my efforts."

"About a week later, I made a mistake while operating the polishing machine and the tool flew out and hit my hand."

"The bone of my right middle finger is broken, and only two layers of skin are left connecting it."

"The incident happened at 2 pm. I finished dealing with it around 8 pm and returned to the dormitory."

"Turn on the computer and use seven fingers to write today's 4,000 words. 4,000 words every day. Only if you keep updating this month will you get the perfect attendance award."

"I wrote until 1:30 in the morning, and had written more than 3,000 words. Then I suddenly broke down and cried like a dog on the keyboard."

"What on earth am I doing?"

"Later, when I was on vacation again, I went back to my hometown. The girl wanted to treat me to a meal, and then we went out to eat and watch a movie."

"The movie we watched that day was Big Fish and Begonia. After seeing the male supporting role Qiu sacrifice his life for the female lead, the female lead Chun still ended up with Kun."

“I seemed to see myself, and I let go of everything.”

"I put the gift I carefully prepared on the overpass and squatted on the road until late at night. People passing by probably thought this guy was weird."

"After returning home, I went back to Zhuhai the next day."

"Work and writing, I didn't even know what supported me at that time."

"After that, I wrote a new book. After more than half a year, God finally rewarded those who worked hard. I had the happiest period of my life."

"I met a female reader who is five years younger than me."

"At that time, she was in school and I was at work, traveling across half of China."

"When I went to see her for the first time, a typhoon hit and the plane couldn't take off. It was delayed for a long time."

"What's even more coincidental is that this typhoon hasn't left yet, and there's another typhoon coming soon. These are all true."

"She told me at the time that if I couldn't make it that day, we would not be together anymore."

"The most coincidental thing happened. The plane took off during the short period between the two typhoons."

"This should be my first time to fall in love."

"Everything we did was a first for me."

"The first time we held hands, the first time we went to an aquarium, the first time we went to an amusement park, the first time we passed by a haunted house, the first time we rode the subway, the first time we kissed..."

"I, a titanium straight man, have caused her a lot of trouble. I have also concealed many of my shortcomings from her, such as my fingers that still have problems after correction, my academic qualifications, and the books I boast about."

"Later, I wrote a supernatural book, which became a big hit. I felt that God would never let down a hard-working person."

"Those days seemed to glow. Hard work paid off and dreams were within reach."

"I seemed to see the poorest student standing in the crowd at the 100-day oath-taking ceremony in high school saying thank you to me."

"Thank you for not giving up. Finally one day, you stand together with those authors you once loved."

“This is the happiest time, but the happy time is always short.”

"Every year the circle selects the best newcomer. I thought my result was a sure thing, but I ran into a brush."

"My book was the absolute leader, and I gave out more than 400,000 RMB in red envelopes to earn this honor."

"Of the 400,000 yuan, more than 100,000 yuan was donated by book friends on their own initiative, and the remaining 300,000 yuan was donated by me myself. I sold my old house."

"During that month, I had thought about it. If my book was reported and banned, I would find that person, kill him, and then burn everything, including myself, to death."

"Fortunately, the book was not banned, but after earning this honor, I suddenly felt that the world had suddenly become darker."

“It should be a very happy thing, but I can’t laugh.”

"Everyone was happy, but I was the only one trying hard to smile."

“My dream has come true, but something seems to be wrong with me.”

“When I communicate with people, I feel like their mouths are getting bigger, like a black hole that’s going to suck me in.”

"I will also reject the care given to me by the people I like and the people close to me."

"Something must be wrong."

The sound of the burning fire on the other end of the phone became louder and louder, as if something like a wardrobe was being pushed over. The man's voice gradually faded away, and Chen Ge only heard his last words.

"This fire is so big..."